Yi Wei is a Chinese conductor based in London. He is the current Constant Lambert Conducting Fellow at the Royal Ballet and Opera and Birmingham Royal Ballet for the 2023/24 and 2024/25 seasons.

In the 24/25 season, Yi made his debut with Birmingham Royal Ballet & Royal Ballet Sinfonia on Luna, and has conducted the performances of The Nutcracker at the Birmingham Hippodrome and Royal Albert Hall. He is currently on tour with Birmingham Royal Ballet conducting Cinderella at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton, Birmingham Hippodrome and Theatre Royal Plymouth.

Yi successfully made his debut with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra as a guest conductor in the 22/23 season, and in his conducting career, he also has conducted professional ensembles, such as the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Northern Ballet Sinfonia, NEW Sinfonia, the Band of Her Majesty’s Royal Marines Scotland and Orchestra Academia China.

As an Assistant Conductor, Yi has also served in programs at the BBC Philharmonic, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Orchestra of Royal Opera House, where he worked with Sir Andrew Davis, Andrew Manze, Andrew Litton, Antony Hermus, Ben Gernon, Carlo Goldstein, Julian Rachlin, Jonathan Lo, Koen Kessels and Paul Murphy.

During his fellowship with The Royal Ballet, Yi has performed as an Assistant and Cover conductor on various productions, such as Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, The Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Romeo and Juliet, The Dante Project, Manon, The Winter’s Tale, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Maddaddam.

He has a keen interest in contemporary music and has appeared in workshops and recording sessions with Manchester’s professional contemporary music ensemble, Psappha. and he has collaborated with leading composers such as Simon Holt, Emily Howard, Bethan Morgan Williams, etc.

Yi obtained his postgraduate degree (MMus) in Conducting at the Royal Northern College of Music under the guidance of Mark Heron and Clark Rundell between 2020-2022 where he achieved one of the highest final recital scores ever and was awarded the Brierley / Kershaw Prize. In 2024, he was awarded an Associate Member (ARNCM) of the RNCM. He also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Conducting from the China Conservatory of Music under the guidance of Youqing Yang.

He had masterclasses with Martin Brabbins at the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, with Omer Meir Wellber at the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, with Barry Wordsworth and Jonathan Lo at the Northern Ballet Sinfonia, with Antony Hermus at Opera North, with Sir Mark Elder, Ludovic Morlot and Domingo Hindoyan at RNCM, and with Alexander Polishchuk, Guido Johannes Rumstadt, Shao En, Claire Levacher, Peter Stark and Mark Gibson at the China Conservatory of Music.